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It’s remarkable what people will do in the name of principle. Walk into police batons. Accept a death in prison. Raid Harper’s Ferry and see your sons perish. S
by sevensor 2y ago
It’s remarkable what people will do in the name of principle. Walk into police batons. Accept a death in prison. Raid Harper’s Ferry and see your sons perish. Stand in front of an advancing tank. Most of us haven’t, most of us won’t. What makes those people so intransigent? Is it their circumstances? Are they doing what any honest person would do, or are they driven further, by something else?
- sevensor 2y agoI want to be clear that I’m not complaining about the downvote, honestly I was expecting more of them. It’s rather that between when I started this comment and when I finished it, the thread vanished from the front page and became essentially impossible to find. So that’s my question here: how did somebody even find this thread to downvote my comment? Can I pull more downvotes by discussing the details of the June 4th incident? Here’s a helpful Wikipedia page on the subject: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protes... You see, what happened was, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army massacred a large number of civilian protesters whose anti corruption, pro democracy views were seen as a threat to the regime. I’m posting this in the name of science. Nobody with reasonable reading habits is going to see this. Are there people out there with unreasonable reading habits?